Netscpae & Fortezza (Or, say it Ain't so, Jeff?)
Matt Blaze
mab at crypto.com
Thu Sep 28 13:44:09 PDT 1995
>This came across the SSL mailing list. Anyone know Taher's position
>on key-escrow?
Oh, come on. One does not have to "support key escrow" to be interested
in Fortezza. The Fortezza interface does not have any "escrow-specific"
features; it's actually a pretty good crypto API (for which several vendors
plan to produce compliant, non-escrowed PCMCIA cards). The Fortezza market
(in the government) is also pretty big, by the way, so one can hardly
blame any vendor for being interested in in.
Disclaimer: I'm also an evil "Fortezza sympathizer". I built a (Tessera,
actually) version of CFS last year. I think it's a good interface,
and I'd encourage people to build strong, non-escrowed crypto modules
(in hardware and in software) that conform to it...
-matt
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